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In the contemporary art landscape where spectacle often trumps substance, Haochen Ren stands apart through his rigorous interrogation of exhibition frameworks themselves.
The New Art Gallery Walsall Gallery Square Walsall WS2 8LG
As one might presume from the title, Communion is a quiet and highly reflective exhibition...
Handsworth Park, Birmingham B20 2BY and podcast
Melissa Baksh responds to 'Reactivating Sounds of Blackness' by Vanley Burke & Gary Stewart with Museum X, a commission by Arts&Heritage, Part of the Arts&Heritage artist-led research programme Meeting Point.
Ilam Park, Ashbourne DE6 2AZ
David Toop interviews artist Luke Fowler about 'Ilam Actual (version)', a commission by Arts&Heritage, National Trust’s Ilam Park and YHA Ilam Hall in the Peak District. Part of the Arts&Heritage artist-led research programme Meeting Point.
Pratt Libraries, Brooklyn, 19th Jan - 6th April 2023
Review by Li Li
Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Waterside, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire CV37 6BB
Amah-Rose Abrams responds to ثلاثة خيوط ذهبية (Three Gold Threads), a new work by artist, performer and composer Liz Gre, commissioned by Arts&Heritage and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), as part of their artist-led research programme Meeting Point.
Hauser & Wirth 69th Street, New York, 10021
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‘And what if he had only been a sculptor?’ —Enrico Crispolti, 2007 Lucio Fontana. Sculpture’ will be accompanied by a new, fully illustrated catalogue from Hauser & Wirth Publishers, laid out by the designer Leonardo Sonnoli and edited by leading Fontana scholar and scientific advisor to the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Luca Massimo Barbero. The book, realized in collaboration with the Fondazione, will be the first comprehensive monograph in English dedicated to Fontana’s sculptural works and includes a foreword by Paolo Laurini and essays by art historians Cristina Beltrami and Maria Villa, as well as an essay by the curator. Book Release: ‘Lucio Fontana: Sculpture’ Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ new publication is the first scholarly monograph in English devoted to Lucio Fontana’s extraordinary sculptural work. Released on 3 November, accompanying the artist’s eponymous show at Hauser & Wirth New York, 69th Street.
Fabric, London
Tai Shani’s first major performance project since DC: Semiramis for which she was nominated and collectively won the Turner Prize in 2019 takes place in the underground chamber of Farringdon’s notorious nightclub: Fabric. The play featured an original live score composed by Shani’s long-term collaborators Maxwell Sterling and Richard Fearless (Death in Vegas) alongside digital animations by Adam Sinclair.
Liverpool-based artist Salma Noor is profiled by Nasra Abdullahi. This is the fifth and final text in our series featuring artists participating in PIVOT, the inaugural mid-career development programme for artists based in the North West of England. PIVOT is delivered in partnership with Bluecoat, Liverpool and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
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The work of Blackpool-based artist Garth Gratrix is profiled by Sean Burns. This is the fourth in our series of texts on artists participating in PIVOT, the inaugural mid-career development programme for artists based in the North West of England. PIVOT is delivered in partnership with Bluecoat, Liverpool and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
Saatchi Gallery Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, London SW3 4RY
‘Food Of War’ presents a retrospective of the artist’s most significant projects and a collection of new installations and performances at Saatchi Gallery, London. In addition to historical events, this staggeringly compact exhibition addresses devotion to the environment and the refusal to leave a land that has been destroyed through conflict and animal rights. It exposes capitalism among recently sheltered indigenous communities, desertification through mono-cropping, and botanists’ unintended impact on the world’s ecosystems. - Gabriella Sonabend
Sean Burns profiles the work of Chester Tenneson as part of our series of texts on artists participating in PIVOT, the inaugural artist development programme in the North West of England. PIVOT is delivered in partnership with Bluecoat, Liverpool and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
George Vasey responds to the work of Manchester-based artist Pat Flynn in the second of our series of texts on artists participating in PIVOT, an inaugural artist development programme in the North West of England. PIVOT is delivered in partnership with Bluecoat, Liverpool and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
IKON Gallery 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace Birmingham, B1 2HS
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“I think that Lear would be as shocked as anyone to find himself on the walls at IKON,” suggests curator Matthew Bevis during this exhibition’s opening. Best known for his nonsense verse, Edward Lear worked as an artist his entire adult life, producing a vast quantity of sketches – “around 9,000 compositions,” notes the catalogue, “roughly one every couple of days over a fifty-year period” – many produced during his restless travels across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Following the success of their recent Carlo Crivelli show, IKON now presents Moment to Moment, the first exhibition dedicated solely to Lear’s landscape drawings, a stunning introduction to an essential body of work. Review by Rowland Bagnall
